Ant ‘meeware’ Miller

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Hmm, there may yet be a detectable change to come: www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Trump has launched a war in the Middle East without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends.

He has no clue what he’s doing in Iran. [Cartoon by Brendan Loper]

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas The agency said it's closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with public health authorities while the facility

The Trump regime’s worst policies are colliding in Camp East Montana, the nation's largest ICE detention facility, and creating even more human suffering.

The cruelty is endless.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-confirms-measles-outbreak-nations-largest-detention-facility-texas-rcna261659

Just an increasingly fascist state doing its increasingly fascist thing bsky.app/profile/thir...

Just an increasingly fascist state doing its increasingly fascist thing

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

Nice one Gorton.

This really sums it up.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Patrick Freyne: If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man From a warm, funny series about connection to the embodiment of cuddly evil, these are the recent(ish) shows I’ve liked most

Patrick Freyne: If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man

Good.

a brick with the number 3 on it sits on a table ALT: a brick with the number 3 on it sits on a table

There’s an app.

Still true...

Are we alluding to appointments per chance?

Starmer appoints Antonia Romeo as head of UK civil service Dame Antonia will be the first woman to hold the post and replaces Sir Chris Wormald as the UK's top civil servant.

I can’t see this ending well. She has… a reputation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seems like they did a LOT of organizing to and from there. He and Brunel were flying victims in and out of Paris from Kyiv, too—you have to search “Kiev”—and using Hyatts—and I see their buddy Pritzker has just said he’ll step down

Oh and Fabrice Aidan & Terje were sending other stuff from the UN

Governing with Words by Dan Gillion

Political scientist Dan Gillion analyzed presidential speech and found that Obama talked about race and racial issues less than any other modern president

What To Watch For When ICE Buys Local Warehouses DHS is buying huge warehouses raising concerns about economic impacts on towns, adequate water and infrastructure, and outbreaks of measles, other infectious diseases.

Unfortunately as an Arizonan I am all too familiar with ICE purchasing warehouses to use as detention camps.

The incredible @drjudystone.bsky.social takes on this cruelty in her latest.

Jim Ratcliffe sorry language 'offended some' after immigration comments The Manchester United co-owner previously said the UK had been

Hey siri show me a bastard not apologising: Ratcliffe sorry language 'offended some' after immigration comments www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

Ratcliffe is so horrible that he got me agreeing with Piers Morgan of all people.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

TikTok on Payday’s Reporting Gets 21,000 Likes in Brasil, But Blocked by Trump Regs in U.S. TikToks made in Brasil are now banned under new rules implemented by the Trump Administration.

TikTok about my reporting got 21,000 likes in Brasil.

It talked about how I overstayed my visa, but was allowed to stay. A Brazilian federal police officer told me, "We're not ICE, we're Brazilians."

The video was blocked, though, for viewers in US.

paydayreport.com/tiktok-on-pa...

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

Trump sought - and failed - to bring criminal charges against six members of Congress who said things that displeased him.

Charles I’s attempt to do similar with five MPs in 1642 preceded a civil war.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.

Thousands of people across the country have been arrested and charged with impeding ICE agents for following at a safe distance and filming.

The intimidation campaign continues

Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

A selection of vegan Italian snacks for watching the Winter Olympics

Here’s the haul from my local Sicilian (but actually pretty wide ranging Italian) deli maps.app.goo.gl/r2wkXx8gQ6YL... - all vegan

Honest question- the current info war on our democracy seems to be very much tuned to attacking FPTP. Is it an especially vulnerable system in the age of social media, more so than in earlier times? What’s the best defendable democracy in the current media landscape?